The FGC has turned into an insurance company as opposed to a regulator. Facebook paid $5 billion on that when they violated whatever thing they, yeah, Facebook did many years ago. It's going to be a long, long process before any of these regulators get these tech companies into any kind of prone position,. But we'll see. We'll see.
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